ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the influence of tourism on indigenous communities and their identities through the exercise of power in the form of the utilisation of assets such as land, sea and labour by the industry and tourists, as well as the mixing of tourists with the indigenous population. In its conclusions it summarises the findings and relates them to the processes of making and consuming identity. Throughout the work different forms of power are acknowledged, as represented by politicians, business interests, landowners, the state, and expressed through the local community, groups, families and public initiatives among others. Power is understood as:
The ability of a person or social unit to influence the conduct and decisionmaking of another through the control over energetic forms in the latter's environment (in the broadest sense of that term). (Fogelson & Adams, 1977, p. 388)
